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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Scorpaeniformes
Subordo: Platycephaloidei

Familia: Platycephalidae
Genus: Thysanophrys
Species (10): T. armata – T. celebica – T. chiltonae – T. cirronasa – T. longirostris – T. papillaris – T. randalli – T. rarita – T. springeri – T. tricaudata
Name

Thysanophrys Ogilby, 1898

Type species: Platycephalus cirronasus Richardson, 1848

Primary references

Ogilby, J.D. 1898: New genera and species of fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 23 (1): 32–41. BHL

References

Knapp, L.W. 2013: Descriptions of four new species of Thysanophrys (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3608(2): 127–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.2.3 Reference page.


Thysanophrys is a genus of flatheads native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

Thysanophrys armata (Fowler, 1938)
Thysanophrys celebica (Bleeker, 1855) (Celebes flathead)
Thysanophrys chiltonae L. P. Schultz, 1966 (Longsnout flathead)
Thysanophrys cirronasa (J. Richardson, 1848) (Tasselsnout flathead)
Thysanophrys longirostris (K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 1987)
Thysanophrys papillaris Imamura & L. W. Knapp, 1999 (Smallknob flathead)
Thysanophrys randalli L. W. Knapp, 2013[2]
Thysanophrys rarita L. W. Knapp, 2013[2]
Thysanophrys springeri L. W. Knapp, 2013[2]
Thysanophrys tricaudata L. W. Knapp, 2013[2]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Thysanophrys in FishBase. December 2012 version.
Knapp, L. W. (2013): Descriptions of four new species of Thysanophrys (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3608 (2): 127–136.

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